Typical bank holiday!

So, the end of another bank holiday weekend (enough of the comments about how every weekend is a bank holiday for me), and I have spent it in time-honoured fashion by getting overwhelmed in IKEA and annoyed that despite them not having in stock any of the things I went there specially to buy, I still managed to spend 60 quid there. It's all part of the house reorganisation, I wanted to get some CD towers that will fit all my CDs and DVDs, as the current ones aren't big enough, but they didn't have the colours I wanted. So I bought a computer desk instead as the one I have currently is too big and has a lot of wasted space, it's all about getting more minimal. I'm getting there, very slowly, but enough for some people to have noticed. This trip to the shops was on my way home from Oxford yesterday as I went to see my friend Russ who has recently moved there. Had a good laugh and went out in the evening - can't believe how much difference it's made since the smoking ban, it was really nice having a few drinks and not coming home stinking of smoke. Except in the summer you now have to go inside in order to escape the smoke as they are all outside in the seating areas! Will be better in the winter I guess. Had a lie-in this morning as was rather a late night on saturday, then went to see my parents and eat barbecue food in the afternoon.

Got a pretty usual week at work as far as I know, think I'm supposed to be going to Thorpe Park this weekend which will be good fun, it's been ages since I've been to a theme park, but there seem to have been a spate of friends going to Alton Towers recently that I've had to miss out on for various reasons. Being the last weekend of the school holidays will be a pain, but needs must I guess.

Have also been trying to sort out an itinerary for a course that I've been accepted onto in a fortnight's time, it's up in the Lake District and is a residential junket-type thing on expedition medicine with lectures but more fun practical stuff like outward-bound things in the afternoons. Have most of the kit already from the Everest trip, but I'd rather not have the opportunity to wear the waterproof trousers etc if I can help it. As it's such a long way up North I'm going to be staying with various friends en-route there and back so am using it as a good way of catching up with people without using any of my holiday time to do it (they're rather generous with study leave where I work so I've still got to find another week's worth of "educational" things to do before April next year.

Can't think of anything more to say, I'm sure I remember having lots of ideas earlier in the week but they've all gone now so I'll just have to try harder to update this thing more often.